INDIANAPOLIS — The first Hoosier convicted for her role in the January 6 U.S. Capitol riot has decided to tell her side of the story.
Anna Morgan-Lloyd of Bloomfield spoke to WISH-TV’s I-Team 8 and says she truly regrets what happened that day.
“My remorse was sincere. It is still sincere. If I could take back being there that day, I would gladly take it back,” Morgan-Lloyd said.
Morgan-Lloyd was convicted and sentenced to 36 months of probation, community service, and was hit with a $500 fine. She says some people in her town call her a hero for going to the Capitol that day, but she never intended to make any sort of stand. She says she only went inside to protect an elderly woman, only identified as “Linda.”
“I didn’t go in to make a statement about the government. I didn’t go in … 100% the only reason I went in was to get that 74-year-old woman out. I didn’t go in to prove a point or be brave. Quite honestly, I was shaken, you know. I’m not one to break the law. I support the police. I didn’t try an prove a point, so it is not like I got sucked in, too. Like I told the FBI, if I knew I was going to get arrested for it, I would have gone in and seen the artwork and the rest of the Capitol building,” Morgan-Lloyd said.
She explained to WISH-TV that she only went about 20 feet into the Capitol, and spent close to 15 minutes inside. Donna Bissey, another woman from Bloomfield convicted of her role in the riot, took a couple of pictures of the group and posted them online. That’s how federal investigators were able to put Morgan-Lloyd on Capitol grounds that day.
She says the rioters have to live with what they did that day.
“They have to live with that because they know they went in there for that reason, and I’d say that most of them haven’t been caught because they might be protected and they will still have to live with it, and I hope they realize how much it has disrupted my life, the violence they did, because if they had never committed violence, there is a good chance that Jan. 6 would die away. It never will for the rest of my life. Jan. 6 will be a day to stick my head in the sand, and not watch TV, and all that,” Morgan-Lloyd said.
She was later fired from her job at Cook Medical, where she had been employed for over 10 years.
She still believes the 2020 presidential election was not legitimate, continuing to believe a claim made by former-President Donald Trump.
“A very large tragedy about Jan. 6 is that no one is discussing why all of these people were in Washington, D.C.,” she continues, “I went because of the election. We have never stopped counting votes on election night. … Too many places stopped counting. It is like they are cheating in plain sight, and they are still able to deny it.”
Morgan-Lloyd’s lawyer asked her to testify in front of the U.S. House of Representatives committee investigating the U.S. Capitol riot, but thus far, she has not agreed to do so.
